You have downloaded a document from The Central and Eastern European Online Library The joined archive of hundreds of Central-, East- and South-East-European publishers, research institutes, and various content providers Source: Modelling the New Europe. An On-line Journal Modelling the New Europe. An On-line Journal Location: Romania Author(s): Martijn LAK Title: HOW TO DEAL WITH THE GERMAN MENACE? WEST GERMAN REARMAMENT, PROPOSALS FOR A COMMON EUROPEAN ARMY, AND THE DUTCH AND WEST GERMAN RESPONSE, 1949-1955 HOW TO DEAL WITH THE GERMAN MENACE? WEST GERMAN REARMAMENT, PROPOSALS FOR A COMMON EUROPEAN ARMY, AND THE DUTCH AND WEST GERMAN RESPONSE, 1949-1955 Issue: 28/2018 Citation Martijn LAK. "HOW TO DEAL WITH THE GERMAN MENACE? WEST GERMAN style: REARMAMENT, PROPOSALS FOR A COMMON EUROPEAN ARMY, AND THE DUTCH AND WEST GERMAN RESPONSE, 1949-1955". Modelling the New Europe. An On-line Journal 28:139- 159. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=735130 CEEOL copyright 2019 ON-LINE JOURNAL MODELLING THE NEW EUROPE NO. 28 / 2018 DOI: 10.24193/OJMNE.2018.28.08 HOW TO DEAL WITH THE GERMAN MENACE? WEST GERMAN REARMAMENT, PROPOSALS FOR A COMMON EUROPEAN ARMY, AND THE DUTCH AND WEST GERMAN RESPONSE, 1949-1955 Martijn LAK, PhD Lecturer, Faculty of Management & Organisation European Studies, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
[email protected] Abstract: At the end of the 1940s and the early 1950s, the question whether or not to rearm West Germany was a fiercely and hotly debated topic in Europe. The Americans suggested doing this by integrating the Federal Republic in NATO.